Word: stockely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evan Blum, 25, of Irreplaceable Artifacts in New York City, came to watch. He already owns a part of the façade of the old Chicago Stock Exchange and the cornice of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. He suggests people start saving, for future investment, early formica tabletops "with the pink-and-gray blob design...
...step, the additional squeeze on world petroleum supplies would be devastating. Even though Gaddafi has made bombastic threats before and never carried them out, the shares of Occidental Petroleum and Marathon Oil, both big users of Libyan crude, came under such intense selling pressure on the New York Stock Exchange that trading had to be briefly halted. Only later was it learned that the irresponsible threat was probably inspired by nothing more than pique. Earlier in June, a U.S. State Department mission had turned down a Libyan offer for a long-term supply of petroleum in return...
...episode was touched off by an article in the Detroit-based weekly Automotive News, the bible of the U.S. auto industry. It asserted that Volkswagen's directors had approved a takeover bid that would pay $15 a share for Chrysler stock...
Faced with denials, Automotive News Editor Robert M. Lienert said that his magazine would stand by its story. Meanwhile, Chrysler's somnolent stock suddenly became the most heavily traded shares on the New York Stock Exchange, where they quickly jumped by $2.50 to close the week...
Zeckhauser said, however, "We've overall added, not subtracted, from the Cambridge housing stock...